Dangerouschrislee (October 7, 2008 at 8:02 pm)

I want to invest.

Shabasky1 (October 2, 2008 at 10:21 pm)

so when exacly is this going to go into production...

timeforthetruthnow (September 21, 2008 at 10:15 pm)

...If you wish to see an example of how the legal system is manipulated by those who hold power to prevent others from threatening it, I suggest you watch "Who Killed the Electric Car?" narrated by Martin Sheen, for just one of many examples.

timeforthetruthnow (September 21, 2008 at 10:14 pm)

...because it is not the DIRECT unit of measurement for energy itself is ludicrous to me, and reminds me of FOX news talking head style straw-man and weak-man argumentation.And finally, courts are not the ultimate authority on truth, nor should they, like any other aspect of government, be always taken at their word. If you think otherwise, then you have REALLY not been paying attention...

timeforthetruthnow (September 21, 2008 at 10:13 pm)

...But ultimately, you're still pumping the same total 1200 watts into the appliance as a whole.A reduction from 1 amp to 100 milliamps is a reduction in current by 90%. Assuming the duration was the same, it would require a TENfold increase in voltage to consume the same amount of energy. If you still don't get it now, then damn what a waste of my time. Whip out your dictionary all you want, but how you can say that a large reduction in amps is unimportant...

timeforthetruthnow (September 21, 2008 at 10:12 pm)

...If you're running an appliance and putting in 120 volts at 10 amps, you're still putting in 1200 watts. If you want to know how much power is getting through to the final output rather than bleeding away through heat-generating resistance, say for maintenance purposes, than you would want to bother with phase relationships and power factors etc., and get a meter that will calculate the true AC watts at various points in the system...

timeforthetruthnow (September 21, 2008 at 10:11 pm)

Energy must be calculated in exactly the same fashion. Without the watts, you cannot know the energy, and without the amps, you cannot know the electrical watts. Yes there are multimeters that can tell you the watts directly, but this is no different than using a scientific graphing calculator to do some of your geometry work for you.And as far as the "phase-relationship," this is used in wattmeters when examining multiple parts of an electrical circuit...

timeforthetruthnow (September 21, 2008 at 10:10 pm)

All Right, we'll try this one more time.If you want to know the mass of an object, you can set it on a scale and measure it directly. If you wish to know its volume, you can whip out a ruler and measure it directly. But there is no such device to directly measure density, it can only be calculated using mass and volume. If you were to tell me that grams do not measure density, or centimeters for that matter, I would respond that it is not possible to measure density without them.

brygenon (September 21, 2008 at 10:26 am)

"As far as the court ruling, I'd have to review the case..."It doesn't remain open just because you personally refuse to accept reality.

brygenon (September 21, 2008 at 10:23 am)

timeforthetruthnow, it seems you now agree with what I've been telling you, but you still talk of "all the confusion".Incidentally, you need the phase relationship between voltage and current to compute the power in an AC circuit.